A meeting is a meeting

Meeting, event, conference, congress, etc. are now all 'meetings', if we accept the generic term proposed by the World Tourism Organisation in the recent report 'Measuring the Economic Importance of the Meetings Industry'.

Here are the definitions proposed:

Industry nomenclature: Meetings Industry

Meeting aims:
To motivate participants, to conduct business, share ideas, to learn, socialize and hold discussions

Meeting size: Minimum number of 10 participants

You can download a copy of the report from http://www.elling.no/blog/docs/unwto06.pdf